6 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Psychology

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on psychology

20. The last speech [Iago's soliloquy], the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful!

125. Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, - as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

128. Hamlet's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.

131. The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

143. In the treatment of nervous cases, he is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

174. How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death - & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End - for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?